Media Digest December 4, 2006 Reuters, NYT, WSJ

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According to Reuters, the CEO of Ericsson is more optimistic that there will be a deal between his frim and Qualcomm. Ericsson has complained that Qualcomm overcharges for royaltied on Wideband and thiird generation cell technology and has take its complaints to the European Commission.

Reuters writes that Pfizer’s shares are at risk of falling because a cholesterol drug it believed would replace income from Lipitor is being pull due to health problems.

The Wall Street Journal writes tha Chinese search firm Baidu is entering the Japanese market in a threat to Yahoo! and Google’s businesses there.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Quallcomm is buying two chip firms to help it compete with Intel in the wireless business. The companies have strengths in the WiFi and Bluetooth wireless technologies.

Airbus will have to pitch its new A350 plane as better than Boeing 787 because Airbus is so late to the market and Boeing has such a large lead. The marketing of the plane will include a larger cabin and more fuel economy.

The New York Times reports that Ask.com part of Barry Diller’s media company, will begin offering local search.

The New York Times also writes that Yahoo! and Reuters will begin a service to encourage cellphone user with cameras to contribute photos to Reuters new service and Yahoo! News.

The New York times reports that Dow Jone flagship The Wall Street Journal will shrink the size of its paper and cut the amount of news it runs by 10% as part of a cost savings program.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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